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Transcript of MyResearch (Humanities) Module 3 Sharon Rankin Sean Swanick Helena Reddington.
Last week we went over… Constructing search strategies McGill WorldCat catalogue vs. Classic catalogue General academic databases Google search commands/maximizing Google
Scholar
Locating theses and dissertations CREPUQ borrowing and interlibrary loans
Welcome back!
Finding known citations
Subject guides and subject-specific databases
Citation searching
Alerts and current awareness
Special resources and collections
This week…
Brooks, Christina. “New Woman, Fallen Woman: the Crisis of Reputation in Turn- of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton.” Legacy. 13.2 (1996): 91-112.
Brooks, Christina. New Woman, Fallen Woman: the Crisis of Reputation in Turn- of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton.” Legacy. 13.2 (1996): 91-112.
Title of article
Title of journal
Volume, issue, year, and page
numbers.
Author
1st 2nd 3rd
Journal name A-Z list - link on library webpage –WorldCat index
http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/journals
WorldCat search
Classic catalogue - print
Title of the article WorldCat search Google Scholar Database search
Full citation Google Scholar Google Database search
doi http://dx.doi.org/
If you can’t find it ask for help.
Never pay for access to an article
Make an ILL request
Techniques for finding the full text of a known journal article
Search by journal title in the WorldCat Catalogue. Navigate to the issue that the article is in.
And:
Search by article title in Google Scholar and use the Find it at McGill link, or any other link that may be available.
Search by article title in WorldCat.
Search by journal title in the Classic Catalogue. Note call number .
Requesting scanned copies from the print collection
Locate the full text of the following two articles:
Who is the author?
“Narrative Injury and Surgical Cure: Wilkie Collins’s Poor Miss Finch and Heart and Science,” Journal of Narrative Theory (Winter 2002).
“Music for the Doge in Early Renaissance Venice”, Speculum, 67, pp 324-364. doi:10.2307/2864375.
Known article searching exercise
Curated lists of resources (encyclopedias, databases, websites, etc.) key to a subject area.
Created and maintained by librarians at McGill.
Also known as “Research Guides”.
Subject Guides: What are they?
What is a thesaurus?
predefined keyword terms = subject terms
“A thesaurus provides a summary listing of the terms in a domain and the main relations between them.”
“a set of terms, a set of relationships, and a set of displays showing relationships between terms.”
From “Teach Yourself Thesaurus: Exercises, Readings, Resources.” Thomas, Alan R. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. Vol. 37, No. 3/4, 2004, pp. 24-25.
Databases with Thesauri
Improve relevancy in your results sets
Learn the discipline specific vocabulary your area of study
Why use Thesaurus terms in your search?
Broader Narrower Related
“Explode" a search term
The "explode" concept is only available in databases that have a thesaurus. To "explode" a search term means to search a subject term and all its associated narrower terms.
Thesaurus terms
Is the locating of references that have cited a particular older work.
Allows you to trace the works that are borne out of the ideas of a particular work.
Is a useful way to examine how a theory or idea has evolved in the literature over time.
Citation searching
Citation searching
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Supplements standard subject searching
Cuts across disciplines
Use for discovery and also to confirm that your search strategy has been comprehensive
3 citation databases offer this functionality:
Scopus
Google Scholar
Web of Science
Search for the following article in Scopus, Web of Knowledge, and Google Scholar:
Brooks, Kristina. "New Woman, Fallen Woman: The Crisis of Reputation in Turn-of-the-Century Novels by Pauline Hopkins and Edith Wharton." Legacy (1996): 91-112.
Compare the “Cited by” numbers from each database.
Exercise
Web of Science From 1900 for Science, Humanities from the 1950s, Arts from the 1970s Selective journal indexing
Scopus From 1996 Broader journal coverage than Web of Science
Google Scholar From 2004 Now includes Web of Science citation counts
Article citation counts
When your search keywords are perfect!
Set the alert in the database
SCOPUS –
Web of Science –
Google Scholar -
Set up a database Search Alert
Option 1: Go to the webpage for the journal and set alert.
Setting up a Table of Contents (TOC) alert
Option 2: Use an aggregator like Journal TOCs.
http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/
Setting up a Table of Contents (TOC) alert
BrowZine delivers thousands of academic journals to your iPad or Android tablet.
BrowZine works by organizing the articles found in Open Access and subscription databases, uniting them into complete journals, then arranging these journals on a common newsstand.
Read complete scholarly journals in a browsable format on your tablet.
Create a personal bookshelf of your favourite journals.
Receive alerts when new issues of journals are published
For more information read - http://library.nd.edu/browzine/
BrowZine
http://www.mcgill.ca/library/services/computers/mobile
BrowZine and other apps
McGill University Archives
Rare Books & Special Collections
Maps & geospatial data guide
GIC (Geographic Information Centre)
Statistics
Government / International organization documents
Specialized Resources at McGill
Where can I find read the newspaper Dominion Post from New Zealand?
How do I find the obituary of a Canadian singer named Nell Rankin? I think she died in the 1930s.
What is Alt-Press Watch?
Newspapers
bit.ly/MyResearchMcGill
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